Coursera books revenue

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US MOOC provider
Coursera
booked its first revenue from “signature track", a trial program that offers special certificates to students who pay a fee (about $30 to $100) and take steps to verify their identity before taking the course exam. The program made $US220,000 ($208,000) in 11 weeks and will expand, said Coursera co-founder
Andrew Ng
.

He said Coursera will soon add an “app platform" to enable universities to add instructional tools, often interactive, to enhance their MOOCs.